The Five-Year Engagement
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62 out of 100

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6.1 out of 10

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  • Starring: Chris Pratt, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel
  • Summary: Beginning where most romantic comedies end, The Five-Year Engagement looks at what happens when an engaged couple keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. (Universal Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 38
  3. Negative: 1 out of 38
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    Apr 26, 2012
    88
    As in last year's "Bridesmaids," an authentic, dimensional human element animates the jokes and the characters with whom we spend a couple of highly satisfying hours.
  2. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    Apr 25, 2012
    60
    Unfortunately, stretching things out dilutes the charms of Segel and Blunt, which are considerable.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    Apr 26, 2012
    20
    Sometime around what I guessed to be the one-hour mark in The Five-Year Engagement, I checked my watch and honestly thought the battery had given out. Five years doesn't begin to tell the interminable tale.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 24
  3. Negative: 8 out of 24
  1. bob13bob
    10
    Finally, a romantic comedy which does not take the same ol story template and puts whatever pretty boy face on the cover. very original writing and mature. EG. how many romantic comedies to you watch where their career actually has any influence on the story?… Expand
  2. numeric
    5
    I like Jason Segel, and I think Emily Blunt is fantastic in this movie. On paper this movie should have been a lot better, but clocking in over two hours?! This film is dragged out far too long and there's really very little to be excited about, or laugh at. The jokes are few and far between and around the one hour mark I just wanted it to be over. Cut about 40 minutes out and it could be a lot more solid.… Expand
  3. onoudont
    3
    Blunt and Segel are both very good. I see them both being very successful in both comedy and drama. They are both in the select category of actors who act with their entire faces. Many of the supporting actors were quite good as well. Sadly, the film wastes their considerable talent. The film is just too full of raunch with no good explanation why. Too few truly funny scenes and way too many ugly, raunchy, awkward scenes which added nothing to a good story idea, only made the movie too long.… Expand

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